The University of California will establish the National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement in Washington, D.C., as part of a concerted educational, research and advocacy effort centered on the First Amendment’s critical importance to American democracy, UC President Janet Napolitano announced today (Oct. 26).

Carbon Neutrality Initiative

UC research is paving the way for the university to meet its goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2025,and is providing scalable solutions to help California and the world bend the curve on climate change.

UC Newsroom

October 30, 2017

Picture all of the trash you’ve thrown away this week. Do you think you could reduce it by half? Lauren Singer thinks you can take it all the way to zero, and she has the total lack of garbage to prove it.

You don’t have to go vegan to fight climate change. Research shows that small changes to our diets can make big differences.

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Carbon Flux Explorers

November 15, 2016

Jim Bishop, senior scientist at Berkeley Lab and professor at UC Berkeley, is leading a project to deploy robotic floats that provide data on how microorganisms sequester carbon in the ocean. He recently led a research team on a 10-day voyage, funded by the National Science Foundation, to put the Carbon Flux Explorers to the test.

Carbon Flux Explorers

Jim Bishop, senior scientist at Berkeley Lab and professor at UC Berkeley, is leading a project to deploy robotic floats that provide data on how microorganisms sequester carbon in the ocean. He recently led a research team on a 10-day voyage, funded by the National Science Foundation, to put the Carbon Flux Explorers to the test.